With four players cup-tied, the Stags lost their Checkatrade Trophy quarter-final at home to Wycombe on Tuesday, but will be back to full strength now this weekend.

“I think people can see from the Checkatrade to the League, it’s two groups,” he said.

“We didn’t want to go out the Checkatrade. It was a poor result on the night and a poor performance.

“But the nice thing now is there’s one focus now, one group, one determination, whether you can get in the group and play. From our point of view we are trying to help that group and strengthen it.

“The analyst probably didn’t sleep much as he was sending me footage at 1am after the Wycombe game – that’s how hard we’re all working to make sure we can get the right players here for the supporters. Our supporters deserve a successful team.”

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